India captain Virat Kohli on the eve of the first One-day International against Australia on Thursday said that there had been no clarity on the injury to Rohit Sharma that has seen him sidelines from the limited-overs leg of the tour of Australia.
Kohli narrated the chain of events and claimed that he was not kept informed about the progress of Rohit Sharma. He said that there was lack of communication on the injury issue.
“Well, before we had the selection meeting with selectors in Dubai, we were told that he is injured and unavailable for selection and it mentioned a line that there is a two-week rest and rehab period (they had to undergo). It said that the pros and cons and implications of the injury have been explained to him and he understood that, and he was unavailable for selection and that is the information we got on mail before the selection meeting,” he said.
“After that, he played the IPL so we all thought he will be on that flight to Australia which he wasn’t on…we…